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Starred Review on April 1, 2025 | Self-Help
Like some seminal texts for writers by writers (Eudora Welty's One Writer's Beginnings, Virginia Woolf's A Letter to a Young Poet), this is at once pure craftsmanship and a glimpse of the gut-wrenching, visceral ways great writers feel the world around them. In 20 essays, poet Smith (You Could Make This Place Beautiful) shares how endlessly expandable the world is for—and to—the writer, and she encourages her rea...Log In or Sign Up to Read More




